Durban residents spreading kindness... one rock at a time
Bringing a smile to the faces of Durbanites...
Durban residents rally together to create an uplifting project that is built to spread love, kindness, and encouragement.
The project is called, Kindness Rocks, where people paint pebbles, rocks or stones with pictures or messages of encouragement and leave them for others to find.
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This is all done by two Durban North residents, Vilasa Ramlakhan and Praveshni Harkhu. It's an initiative that has Durban residents also getting in on the fun of painting rocks too.
The two ladies are part of the 'Umhlanga Rocks On' project, which was started back in 2020 by Sonia de Fleuriot, who is a Durban North resident.
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The idea is to paint on rocks with messages or pictures that would bring encouragement, hope or kindness and leave them around for others to find.
For Harkhu and Ramlakhan, they place their colourful hand-painted rocks along the uMhlanga Promenade.
"At least twice a week, a friend of mine and I walk along the promenade from Durban View Park to the new Forest Café. I often place the hand-painted rocks in certain spots in the hopes of inspiring others," says Ramlakhan.
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